Eadgar (959 – 978 AD) Two Line Type Penny; NEV, York, Heriger. 1.24g. (N. 741, S. 1129). REF: 7WWDLO.
Obverse: Central cross-pattée, inscription around +EADGAR REX. Reverse: Trefoil of pellets above and below, central line of three cross-pattée dividing inscription HERIG / ER HO.
A nice example of a late 10th C., two line type penny from a well known hoard. Full, and with a pleasant even mid-grey tone. Very fine, reverse better.
Provenance:
Tetney Hoard (255), Lincolnshire, May 1945; A. H. Baldwin circa 1946.
Baldwin, October 2001 (with ticket written by A. H. F. Baldwin).
Part of the Tetney hoard, see John Walker, ‘A Hoard of Anglo Saxon Coins from Tetney Lincolnshire’, Numismatic Chronicle, Sixth Series, Vol 5, pp. 81-95. This coin: no. 255, 19.2 grains.
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